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Additional email encryption for Gmail

I am working on a state cybersecurity grant and would like to include the purchase/subscription for a service or tool to encrypt our Gmail messages beyond what Google already provides. What options would you folks recommend? Any besides Virtru and Ma...

[resolved I think] 2sv/mfa group inheritance

For peace of mind, we have an mfa bypass group for users to be in temporarily if they miss the deadline for enforcement of mfa. I click on the root of the directory, and the group shows up under the group sections. Does the group permission trickle d...

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Is most Recent sort option.. It must not sort by posted date, Does it sort by any interaction with the post?  

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mfoley by New Contributor III
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[resolved] Weird login discrepancy for users behind sso

So I'm doing some cleanup in AD and our SSO platform and I've stumbled across something that I find weird. Perhaps I'm not fully awake yet but here is the info I have:AD - find a user that lastlogin is neverSSO Platform - same user never logged inGoo...

Scanners for Chromebooks

Greetings,  We have a project coming up where parents are going to come to  one of our schools and will be using chromebooks to register their child.  However we need to scan in some documents while the parents are on location and wondering has anyon...

Clements by New Contributor
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PDF preview in Gmail broken

Is anyone else seeing issues with clicking on a PDF in gmail and only the first page (or nothing) will load? It's been going on here for a few days. If you download the PDF, it's fine.

kcalderw by Contributor
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Timeline/location history changing

Many of you probably also received this update regarding changing Timeline/location history settings.   I must be missing something as I cannot locate these settings in the admin console.  Also, what is everyone doing with this setting on your studen...

Settings Block?

So I'm kind of stuck in a loop here. heres the situation. For our content filter they say to block the setting under "Disabled system features" for students of OS settings. So we do this now I have comeplaints that the studdents cannot plug a Chromeb...

chromebook policies not updating

Our network guys recently updated our district firewall.  Seems ever since they did it, our chromebooks have stopped getting policy settings when we move them to other OUs with different polices.  Does anybody know what ports need to be open on the f...

mhermmsd by New Contributor III
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GEG newsletter 93

Check out the most recent newsletter from the Google Educator Groups from around the world!This time with some references to the BETT #edtech fair in London just a short while ago.https://sites.google.com/view/educatorgroups/newsletters/newsletter-93...

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organizing OUs

Happy Friday!  I have a question about organizing OUs and the impact on settings.  If I have an OU with some non-inherited settings, and I move it underneath a different OU, will the non-inherited settings remain in place or will they inherit from th...

Product Training Series 2024

Definitely worth relaying to your staff.This series is in English, and sometimes Google also run series in other languages, but I haven't seen anything about that yet.Hello!The Google for Education team is just back from attending BETT 2024 where we ...

Admin Meetup at IDEAcon?

Hi Admins!Anyone heading to Schaumburg, IL for IDEAcon 2024 (2/19-2/21)? I'd be happy to arrange for a meetup where fellow admins can gather, network, chat, etc. We might even get a special guest Googler. Reply if you're attending and we'll see if we...

chand by Admin Moderator
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More inSecurly and other mischievous stuff

Some or all of these you may already have blocked one way or another.https://www.disablesecurly.com/https://insecurly-vercel.vercel.app/https://discord.com/invite/unblockhttps://ading.dev/blog/posts/securly_bypass.htmlThis next thing looks to be a wa...

Resolved! Check for Updates button missing

Ever since OS version 115, when we go into the settings/About page, there used to be a blue button for Check for updates.  It has now disappeared.  We have our devices set for auto update to latest Stable channel, but sometimes when chromebooks fall ...

mhermmsd by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Mail relay and SPF issue

Hello all!  Our school district uses the Follett Destiny library manager product.They host this system for us in their cloud, and have spun up an SMTP server for communications from the system to parents and students.For SPF authentication , I have a...

Any Canva Users?

Hi all, A random one that I apologise is not Google related but a bit desperate for an answer. We are new to Canva, and on set up believed there would be some teacher control of who could access slides, It seems that the students can just share as th...

dochxp by Contributor
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Chromebook Accents

Hi all. A potentially random one that I fear may put me forward for the silliest question award. I have a French teacher with the following issue, and I have to say that I am experiencing the same issue. Any thoughts? I could sort languages on Keyboa...

dochxp by Contributor
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For those that use Android apps, I have some questions.

Are the android apps pushed to the users or is it just a list that they may install? Or do we decide if they are pushed or available.Do you have any issues with drive sizes? Ours are only 32 gigs.Are all android apps backupable by the user for when y...

Rick2025 by Contributor
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How many extensions do you push?

Do extensions use a tremendous amount of resources on chromebooks?  Or does it depend on which extension?We just picked up a bunch of new extension based products (Co-Writer/Read&Write for Google Chrome/OrbitNote, etc).If I push these extensions to a...